Endosymbionts

Question 1

Cyanelles

Answer 1

Ancestral chloroplasts in Glaucophtres

Question 2

Model chlorophytes

Answer 2

Chlamydomonas reinhdardtii and Volvox carteri

Question 3

Isogamy

Answer 3

Sexual reproduction involving gametes with same morphology

Question 4

Anisogamy

Answer 4

Sexual reproduction involving two different gametes

Question 5

Group containing land plants and Charophytes

Answer 5

Streptophytes

Question 6

Charophytes

Answer 6

Complex green algae common in freshwater and terrestrial environments

Question 7

Biological soil crust

Answer 7

Complex community of green algae, cyanobacteria, lichens, etc. that colonize soil surface and establish living soil where plants can proliferate

Question 8

Lignin

Answer 8

Complex organic polymer structure incorporated in cell wall of Streptophytes

Question 9

Chara

Answer 9

Multicellular plant-like algae that deposit CaCO3

Question 10

Oogamy

Answer 10

Sexual reproduction involving a small motile male gamete and larger, less motile female gamete

Question 11

Hormones

Answer 11

Molecules present in low concentrations that regulate important biochemical pathways

Question 12

Pseudoparenchyma

Answer 12

Filamentous algal tissues embedded in an extracellular matrix

Question 13

Light harvesting complex

Answer 13

Array of proteins and chlorophyll embedded in thylakoid membrane of Rhodophytes

Question 14

Model Euglenozoa

Answer 14

Euglena gracilis

Question 15

Haptonema

Answer 15

Peg-like organelle in many Haptophytes that functions in attachment to substrate, feeding, or sensing

Question 16

Model Haptophyte

Answer 16

Emiliania huxleyi

Question 17

Top and bottom valve of diatoms

Answer 17

Epivalve and hypovalve

Question 18

Radial and bilateral diatoms

Answer 18

Centric and pennate

Question 19

Model diatom

Answer 19

Phaeodactylum tricorntum

Question 20

Auxospore

Answer 20

Temporary diploid reproductive cell of diatoms

Question 21

Brown algae group name

Answer 21

Phaeophytes

Question 22

Fucoxanthin

Answer 22

Dominant pigment in brown algae, absorbs broad range of blue-green light

Question 23

Pneumatocyst

Answer 23

Air bladder

Question 24

Transverse flagellum

Answer 24

Unique dinoflagellate feature contained in groove in cell wall

Question 25

Zooxanthellae

Answer 25

Single-celled dinoflagellates that live in mutualistic relationships with marine invertebrates such as coral

Question 26

Parasites of algal origin

Answer 26

Apicomplexans

Question 27

Apicoplast

Answer 27

Vestigial non-photosynthetic plastid used for synthesis, metabolism, etc. in apicomplexans